ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,479, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wagner Spray Tech Corp. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Gesture control of a fluid application system" was invented by Nima Abbaspour (Salem, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid application system includes a pump unit configured to pump a fluid to a fluid applicator. The fluid application system includes a sensor configured to sense a motion made by a user and generate a sensor signal indicative of the sensed motion. The fluid application system also includes a control system configured to identify a gesture based on the sensor signal and control the fluid application system based on the identifi...